I was reading the new National Review the other day and I came across this gem in an article by a Ross Douthat on how conservatives needed to create some culture in order to win the culture wars: “the Right has manly expended energy trying to reduce its power to shape the artistic landscape–highlighted by its long-running and only recently abandoned effort to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts.” So much for constitutional arguments about whether the federal government has any authority to fund art, moral arguments about forcing taxpayers to fund art they may object to, and economic … Continue reading Speaking of evil